I would not count on it, especially with 10% containment.. From the map it looks like it has been burnt and I remember hearing at some point on a radio scanner that the fire reached Double Tunnels. I'm unsure how exact or reliable this information is.

It is at the tunnels and doubt you’ll be able to drive there. The smoke is terrible. You don’t want to climb with a respirator. Smoke has kept me out of home all week. Likely that the haze will be around for awhile. Stay away from burn areas for awhile.

Yeah dude, gimme some of what your smoking cause this stuff in the air ain't cutting it. Don't recommend going that way at all. I drove into ojai yesterday to get a load in my pickup truck from a coworkers house. If I wasn't wearing a respirator I wouldn't go up there at all right now. You may be able to access pine mountain via I-5 to the back side of 33. But if I were you I would just go stick it out wicth the crowds at Malibu creek or somewheee not on fire

Edit: the captain on my boat lives up there also. Cozy dell trailhead area is burnt up. With that said you're not going to make it far out of downtown ojai

Edit Edit: or go out to Texas canyon or something. With the amount of driving you'd have to do just to climb at wheeler you might as well go somewhere else

I’m about to take a drive out there right after breakfast. Was climbing at saddle peak the other day and whipped into a ledge. Since I won’t be climbing for a while I’ll do some recon and let you guys know. Expect an update this afternoon

I’m about to take a drive out there right after breakfast. Was climbing at saddle peak the other day and whipped into a ledge. Since I won’t be climbing for a while I’ll do some recon and let you guys know. Expect an update this afternoon

Yes, I believe so. Nothing broken. Just some torn soft tissues. Swelling is going down now. That route ‘proud mary’ is a bit dangerous. First time to saddle peak and first thing I noticed was the bolting seemed off. I should have been more aware of the ledge below the 2nd/ or 3rd bolt. The climb causes you to pull out a bunch of slack as you go up and left over a small roof. Whipping here caused me to land right on the shelf. Nothing I or my partner could’ve done differently I think. Took over an hour to get out of there.

Was hoping Cal trans’ reports weren’t up to date. Just turned around at the Deer Lodge. It is confirmed that the road is closed. Coned off with CHP parked at the closure. As of now there is no access to the climbing up the 33.

Anyone have any info on road and rock conditions for Santa Barbara area? I heard San Ysidro had a Trail closure. What about Gibraltar or Crag full of Dynamite?

Was hoping Cal trans’ reports weren’t up to date. Just turned around at the Deer Lodge. It is confirmed that the road is closed. Coned off with CHP parked at the closure. As of now there is no access to the climbing up the 33.

Anyone have any info on road and rock conditions for Santa Barbara area? I heard San Ysidro had a Trail closure. What about Gibraltar or Crag full of Dynamite?

Was hoping the same. Thanks for checking it out for us. Please chime back in when you get word of it being re-opened - thx

Took a walk through of wheeler this morning. Let me start by saying it could be a lot worse

first of all walking down the creek there are a lot of downed trees which I made a little effort to clear. Watch your step! There are some dead rodents in the walking areas and they blend in with the fresh rockfall very well, mostly in front of the long cobble wall. Also keep an eye out for rockfall itself, in the 3 minutes I was there 6 small slides occurred mostly on the trout farm side.

Vegetation above most of the anchors on the cobble walls was burned, and there is enough rockfall in the creek to suggest they may be a little sketchy. I'm willing to bet that most of the midway through the route bolts are in good shape. The first bolt of economique may be sketchy also. The lower part of the tree at the base had burned, the rock didn't feel crumbly or anything though.

The sandstone routes and the schist routes seem unscathed.

I didn't hike up to Mikes Gully due to the trail being super sketchy and how many pebbles were raining down from that way. But by looking at the burn scars, it looks like it got pretty thrashed.

sespe, Potrero, fortress, and Derrydale didn't get hit.

One more thing, I wouldn't suggest using the creek as a beer cooler for a while, dude that shit is so nasty